No. 285: Weaponized and Overhyped: Hypersonic Technology

Author(s): Dominika Kunertova
Series Editor(s): Lisa Watanabe, Julian Kamasa, Fabien Merz, Névine Schepers, Benno Zogg
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 285
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2021

Cruise missiles and boost gliders that can travel faster than five times the speed of sound without revealing their target until the very last moment have become a reality. While hypersonic weapon systems are on their way to change the strategic stability parameters by the middle of this decade, the magnitude of their disruptive effect remains a known unknown.

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